Issue 142

Summer & Fall 2012

Fiction Anthony Tognazzini Fiction Anthony Tognazzini

The Treehouse

I don’t yet know what this is about, or if there’s a master plan, but since I am by nature romantic, I’m willing to believe one exists. I trust something good—ennobling even—will come of this. John Keats said, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter,” and I’d like to believe that’s true.

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Fiction Travis Kurowski Fiction Travis Kurowski

The Entire City

1. Plaster

A few months ago, my father died.

In 1986, when he was thirty-two years old—the year I turned four—my father, Dr. John Mayers, published his University of Portland doctoral dissertation, The Privacy of Other Places, with a small press in North Carolina.

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Fiction Bryan Hurt Fiction Bryan Hurt

The Fourth Man

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.

Pablo Picasso, on news of the first moon landing, quoted in the New York Times, July 21, 1969

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